Mona lisa changkija biography of mahatma

(Speech of Monalisa Changkija during A Kevichusa Citizenship Award and Chalie Kevichusa Essay Award on December 20)

Greetings

In all honesty, I cannot claim to have known Chalie Kevichusa well therefore it was with great trepidation I accepted Mimi’s invite to speak this evening because to say no to the occasion of his remembrance would be saying no to his life and the legacies he bequeathed to us.

So, here I am with the hope that I can share the little that I knew of Chalie Kevichusa.

To explain my association with Chalie, I have to go back to 1985, when I started writing for Nagaland Times. After I was hired as a Cub Reporter, I persuaded my then Editor Late TP Bhatta to allow me a column.

Mahatma gandhi didnt endorse reservation of women in politics to safeguard "the dignity of women".

Mahatma gandhi didnt endorse reservation of women in politics to safeguard "the dignity of women".

NB: Etel Adnan, writer, poet, artist and musician was born in and raised in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mona Lisa Changkija's “Of a People Unanswered” is a declaration of personal liberty.

Monalisa Chankija is a noted journalist, poet and writer who is also the editor of Nagaland Page.

Monalisa is the first Naga poet to visit the International Indigenous Peoples' Forum, Oslo, in where she presented her collection on.

Soon I wrote two columns for Nagaland Times ~ on youth and on women. I then realized that neither the youth nor women live in bubbles in society and State. It is also injustice to them to deny their integral existence and struggle for survival in society and State.

So, I persuaded my Editor